Foster: Tenex on track to reach $43M revenue in year one
Eric Foster · How his AI-first services company grew $0 to $40M ARR in one year. | Eric Foster, Founder of Tenex · PMF Show · Dec 1, 2025 · at 36:51
Eric Foster, founder of Tenex.ai, discusses the company's rapid financial growth in its first year of operation with host Pablo Srugo.
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“We're going to close this first year. It's still a little bit of time left, but we'll probably land this first year, call it forty three million in revenue.”
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